bookbashuk Chapter 141 Overlapping Parallel Worlds
Chapter 141 Overlapping Parallel Worlds
"Bullshit!" Chen Qi abruptly released his grip, spinning around in frustration. "I'm from Earth, China, Dongjiang City, Jiangnan Province! What the hell is this Blue Star, Country C?! I've lived for thirty years, and this is the first time I've ever heard of Blue Star!"
Lin Yu was completely dumbfounded.
The other students, who had been laughing and crying, froze, their expressions more varied than if they had seen a ghost.
"Earth...?" The girl with glasses shrank back. "You're not from Earth? Then you're aliens?"
"Damn it!" Chen Qi cursed, turning to Jiang Ming. "Brother Jiang, what the hell is going on? Is the train's navigation system broken?"
Jiang Ming didn't speak, but simply crossed his arms and quietly watched the red characters flashing on the screen.
He was quickly processing the current intelligence in his mind.
Another world, Earth, and now another blue planet has appeared.
Moreover, according to Lin Yu and his companions' descriptions, the level of civilization, administrative divisions, and even language of this blue planet are strikingly similar to those of Earth.
"Chen Qi, ask him about history," Jiang Ming suddenly said.
Chen Qi immediately realized what was happening and turned to stare at Lin Yu: "What year did World War II start? What's your common currency called? What's the name of the tallest building in the city center?"
Lin Yu swallowed hard and answered honestly, "It broke out in 1939. The currency is the C country's currency. The tallest building in the city center is the Petronas Twin Towers, with a total of eighty-eight floors..."
Chen Qi gasped, turning to look at Jiang Ming, his voice trembling, "Brother Jiang...it all matches up. Except for the country names, this is a parallel world!"
The carriage was deathly quiet.
The only sound was the low hum of the train speeding through the void.
Lin Yu and the other students finally realized what was happening.
They looked at Jiang Ming and the special operations team with eyes filled with awe and fear.
It turns out that these ruthless people who slaughtered the orcs like pigs were not their fellow countrymen at all, but humans from another parallel universe!
"Then...can we still go home?" the girl asked, her voice trembling, tears welling up in her eyes again.
"Go home?" Jiang Ming finally turned around.
He walked up to the students, looked down at them, and a mocking smile appeared on his lips.
"Do you guys think that as long as the train stops in Dongjiang City, you can get off, take a taxi back to your neighborhood, eat a hot meal cooked by your parents, and then post on social media about your amazing adventures these past few days?"
Lin Yu felt a chill run down his spine under Jiang Ming's gaze and subconsciously nodded.
"Idiot," Jiang Ming cursed mercilessly.
He pointed to the huge display screen at the end of the carriage.
"Can you read? Say it out loud."
Lin Yu followed Jiang Ming's finger and read aloud in a dry voice, "Next stop, Dongjiang City, Country C, Blue Star... Overlapping area."
"Do you know what an overlapping area is?" Jiang Ming pulled out the [Hellfire Thunder Prison] sword from the ground and casually tore off a rag to wipe the blood off the sword.
"Two worlds are merging. Your city is now the front line for monsters from another world."
Jiang Ming's words were like a bucket of ice water, poured directly from the heads of these students to their feet.
Lin Yu's face turned deathly pale instantly.
He imagined the scene of orcs riding dire wolves charging into the streets and alleys of Dongjiang City, and his legs went weak, causing him to collapse to the ground.
"How could this happen... My parents are still in the city center..."
"Brother Jiang, what should we do?" Chen Qi also became nervous.
He experienced the initial overlap on Earth and knows how terrifying it is.
Now I've been parachuted into a completely unfamiliar overlapping region of parallel worlds. Who knows what level of monsters I'll encounter?
"What's the panic?" Jiang Ming slung the greatsword over his shoulder, his eyes sharp as knives. "Whether it's Earth or Blue Star, as long as there are monsters, there are experience and materials. Since we're already here, we can't go back empty-handed."
He turned to look at Marlowe, who was huddled in the corner, trembling.
"Marlowe, stick close when we get there. If you get lost and the Earthlings mistake you for an alien and shoot you dead, I won't be responsible for burying you."
Marlowe nodded frantically, clinging tightly to the dire wolf's neck.
【drop--】
[Next stop: Blue Star - Dongjiang City (overlapping area)]
Passengers, please prepare to disembark.
The red warning lights inside the carriage began to flash, and a feeling of weightlessness instantly washed over us.
The train's speed dropped drastically in just a few seconds, and the wheels screeched against the unknown track with an extremely piercing whistle.
Everyone instinctively grabbed onto something fixed in their path.
boom!
The train jolted violently and came to a complete stop.
Immediately afterwards, the heavy black car door emitted a muffled mechanical exhaust sound and slowly slid open to both sides.
There was no platform, no lights.
A strong smell of gunpowder, mixed with the acrid smell of burning car tires, and... the pungent smell of blood hit me.
Jiang Ming was the first to walk to the car door and peer out.
The sight outside made Chen Qi and the others gasp in shock.
This appears to be a main road in Dongjiang City.
But now, this once bustling asphalt road has been torn in two by a huge, bottomless fissure in the ground.
But now, this once bustling asphalt road has been torn in two by a huge, bottomless fissure in the ground.
The edges of the fissure in the earth were covered with thick vines that emitted a faint blue light, like those from another world.
These vines coiled like pythons around the wrecked cars and fallen lampposts along the roadside.
A double-decker bus was pierced through by a black rock pillar that jutted out from the ground and hung in mid-air like a skewer.
The sky was overcast and there was no sun, only two dark red moons, one large and one small, hanging silently behind the broken clouds.
The air raid sirens wailed mournfully over the city.
Da da da da!
Suddenly, a burst of rapid fire from automatic rifles came from afar, interspersed with several muffled explosions and the roar of some kind of wild beast.
"This...this is Dongjiang City?" Lin Yu clung to the car door frame, looking at the scene before him that resembled a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and completely broke down.
The streets and shopping malls he knew were all gone.
Instead, a terrifying hell was created, where reinforced concrete and primeval jungle were stitched together.
"What are you standing there for? Get off the bus!"
Jiang Ming kicked Lin Yu off the train, and then jumped off himself.
Stepping onto the cracked asphalt road, Jiang Ming immediately activated his senses.
The concentration of magical energy in the surrounding area was extremely high, even more so than in the Blackrock Mine.
"Emergency formation!" Chen Qi reacted quickly, directing the special operations team to surround the students in the middle, with all rifles loaded.
Just as the last person left the carriage.
The train doors slammed shut.
With a low rumble, the long, black steel dragon gradually became transparent in place, eventually turning into a cloud of gray mist and dissipating into the air.
"So that's how it left." Jiang Ming didn't even glance at the disappearing train, casually twirling his sword. "Chen Qi, lead the way. Find a high vantage point and figure out what kind of territory this is."
"Brother Jiang, I'm from Dongjiang City on Earth, I don't know the streets of this Blue Star at all!" Chen Qi said with a bitter face.
"I know it! I know it!" Lin Yu quickly raised his hand, wiping away his tears. "Turn left at the intersection ahead, and you'll find Dongjiang City's largest commercial plaza. There are several tall buildings there..."
Before he could finish speaking...
Suddenly, a sickening sound of shattering glass came from above.
Jiang Ming suddenly looked up.
On the exterior wall of the adjacent office building, which is more than ten stories high, a giant spider, as big as a small car and covered with black scales, is using its sharp limbs to pierce through the glass curtain wall and rapidly climb down.
Eight scarlet compound eyes were fixed on the group of live prey below.
【Demon Scale Spider (Lv.18)】
[Danger Level: High]
【Characteristics: Poisonous spider silk, scaled defense, high-altitude attack.】
"spread!"
Jiang Ming shouted loudly.
"Fire! Fire!"
Chen Qi reacted extremely quickly, raising his rifle and unleashing a barrage of fire at the giant spider that had fallen from the sky.
Bang bang bang!
The bullet struck the black scales of the Demon Scale Spider, sending up a series of sparks and producing a crisp metallic clang.
Not even a white mark was left.
"Holy crap, this thing is bulletproof!" The special agents' expressions changed drastically.
The Demon Scale Spider let out a hoarse shriek, its abdomen suddenly contracting.
A clump of pale white spider web shot out like a cannonball, heading straight for Chen Qi's face.
The spider web was not only extremely fast, but its surface was also covered with green venom, instantly filling the air with a pungent, acidic smell.
"Get out of the way!"
Jiang Ming did not use his sword.
He flipped his left hand, and instantly a [Thermite Incendiary Bomb] that he had previously synthesized in the otherworldly training building appeared in his palm.
He flicked the pull ring with his thumb and smashed it directly at the clump of spider web.
boom!
The incendiary bomb collided with the spider web in mid-air, instantly exploding with temperatures of over a thousand degrees.
That tough spiderweb, which even bullets couldn't penetrate, couldn't withstand the terrifying high temperature of the thermite for even a second and was burned to ashes.
The fireball continued its trajectory, slamming hard into the abdomen of the Demon Scale Spider.
"hiss--!!!"
The giant spider let out a shrill scream, its black scales on its abdomen burning red, and large spurts of green fluid gushed from its wounds, landing on the asphalt road and corroding it into puddles that emitted white smoke.
It fell directly from the height of a seven or eight-story building, crashing heavily onto an abandoned car and completely denting the roof.
Before it could even turn over.
Jiang Ming has already made his move.
A terrifying power of over 30 points erupted, and the ground beneath his feet instantly cracked.
He transformed into a blur, instantly traversing a distance of over ten meters, and appeared above the Demon Scale Spider.
Jiang Ming's "Iron Will" allowed him to remain completely unmoved when facing this ferocious monster.
He gripped the hilt of the [Fire and Thunder Prison] sword with both hands and pierced through it from top to bottom with a single strike!
puff!
The dark red blade, crackling with eerie blue lightning, pierced through the Demon Scale Spider's prized scales without hindrance, pinning it directly to the car's chassis.
The power of lightning raged wildly inside the spider web, instantly cooking its internal organs.
The power of lightning raged wildly inside the spider web, instantly cooking its internal organs.
The Demon Scale Spider's eight legs twitched violently a few times, then fell completely still.
[Defeat the Demon Scale Spider (Lv.18) to gain 1800 experience points.]
The whole process took less than five seconds.
Lin Yu and several students stared wide-eyed at Jiang Ming, who stood on the roof of the car, pulling out a giant sword with one hand.
They knew Jiang Ming was very strong.
But in the other world, Jiang Ming killed orcs, who were, after all, humanoid monsters.
Now, on the familiar streets of Dongjiang City, facing a terrifying behemoth that even the special forces' rifles couldn't penetrate, Jiang Ming still annihilated it with the same ease.
This visual impact completely overturned their perception.
"This is what you call a high-risk monster?" Jiang Ming shook off the green liquid on his sword, his brows furrowing slightly.
In another world, level 18 monsters at least know how to utilize the terrain or coordinate attacks, but this spider only knows how to stupidly spray webs and smash things.
It seems that the monsters on Earth, although high-level, have had their combat intelligence weakened.
Jiang Ming skillfully squatted down and began to touch the corpse.
[Obtained: 1 Venom Sac of the Demon Scale Spider]
[Obtained: 5 Hardened Black Scales]
[Obtained: Torn Spider Silk Gland *1]
He stuffed all the materials into the storage card.
These are all good materials for crafting advanced armor and poison weapons.
"Brother Jiang, you're awesome!" Chen Qi swallowed and gave a thumbs up.
"Stop flattering us and conserve your bullets. The monsters here are tough; your junk won't even scratch them." Jiang Ming jumped off the roof of the car. "Lin Yu, lead the way to the commercial plaza."
The group immediately adjusted their formation and quickly advanced along the devastated streets.
The further you go, the more obvious the overlapping traces become.
A boutique that used to sell luxury goods has now become a giant goblin lair.
The shop windows no longer display designer handbags, but dried human limbs.
A fire hydrant by the roadside was punctured by a thick, otherworldly tree root, and a jet of water shot up more than ten meters high, looking incredibly eerie under the dark red moonlight projected from who-knows-where.
"Da da da!"
"Help! Stop it!"
Just as we turned the corner, we suddenly heard intense gunfire and screams ahead.
Jiang Ming raised his hand to signal the team to stop.
He pressed himself against the corner of the wall and peered over.
There is a crossroads ahead.
A small armed squad of about a dozen people, relying on several overturned armored vehicles, were desperately resisting the attack of several monsters.
The squad was dressed in black combat uniforms with an eagle spreading its wings printed on their armbands.
Their weaponry was far superior to Chen Qi's, and they even had two heavy machine guns spitting fire wildly.
But their opponents are a source of despair.
Those were three mutated wild boars, resembling rhinoceroses but covered in sharp bone spurs.
【Ironclad Boar (Lv.15)】
The bullets from the heavy machine gun only managed to scrape off some fragments of bone spurs.
One of the porcupines suddenly lowered its head, like a tank traveling at full speed, and crashed directly into an armored vehicle.
The two armed men hiding behind the car were instantly crushed into a bloody pulp.
"Captain! We can't hold on! Let's retreat!" a team member with a face covered in blood shouted in despair.
The one referred to as the captain was a muscular man with a buzz cut.
He held a uniquely shaped, large-caliber shotgun in his hand, and each shot he fired blasted a bloody hole in the boar's body.
"Retreat my ass! If the defense line breaks, all the underground shelters behind it will be finished!"
The captain's eyes were bloodshot. He pulled a grenade from his waist and made as if he was about to rush forward and fight to the death.